The 'Falklands Factor' in the UK has a single, clearly defined meaning. It refers to the electoral advantage believed to have been given to Mrs Thatcher and to the Conservative Party by their response to the outbreak of war in the South Atlantic. There is no precise parallel to this in ...
This objective, offic-ially known as the "Proceso" but dubbed by the public as the "dirty war," lasted from 1976 to 1983 when democracy was finally restored to rebuild the aftermath of the Argentine economy, society and morale caused by the Malvinas/Falkland Island defeat by Great Britain....
most famously under the presidency ofJuan Perón. The 1970s ushered in a period of militarydictatorshipand repression during which thousands of presumed dissidents were “disappeared,” or murdered; this ended in the disastrous Falklands Islands War of 1982, when Argentina invaded the South Atlantic...
Many Argentines saw the match as revenge for their country’s loss to Britain in the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands, which Argentines still claim as “Las Malvinas.” “It was our way of recovering ‘Las Malvinas,’” Maradona wrote in his 2000 autobiography “I am Diego.” “It wa...
“It was our way of recovering ‘Las Malvinas,’” Maradona wrote in his 2000 autobiography “I am Diego.” “It was more than trying to win a game. We said the game had nothing to do with the war. But we knew that Argentines had died there, that they had killed them like birds...
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“Today we are dependent on foreign coal, especially from England. Nobody remembers the coal that exists in our country, whether good or bad because we always trust that our demand will be met through imports, without considering [the possibility of] war” (“El carbón mineral argentino”,La...
in the transmission of the Malvinas cause as an integral element within a contemporary politics of memory in the context of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 military coup; in particular, we focus on the place assigned to the 1982 Malvinas War in the educational resources produced at the time....
I examine a corpus of literary and audiovisual narratives, in both fictional and documentary forms, that revolve around the 1982 war between Argentina and Great Britain for sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands. My analysis takes into account, among others, texts by Rodolfo Fogwill, ...
Advertising in times of war: Themes in Argentine print advertising during the Malvinas/Falklands WarAdvertising themeswarArgentinaLatin Americacontent analysisIn the plethora of literature that investigates how the advertising industry reacts to changes in society, very few studies are concerned with ...